Free community college tuition push grows

10:50 PM,
Mar. 15, 2014

Written by

Sid Salter
Contributing columnist

House Bill 424, known as the Mississippi Promise Community College Tuition Gap Pilot Program, died in committee on March 4 after being referred to the Senate Universities and Colleges Committee and the Senate Appropriations Committee.

HB 424 would have made tuition free at all 15 Mississippi community colleges for students who graduated from high school within 12 months of enrolling in college. To qualify, students would also have had to be first-time, full-time students. Once admitted students needed to maintain a 2.5 GPA while taking a minimum of 15 credit hours each semester to ...